STOCKTON – Police and several other agencies are in a standoff with a suspect they were trying to take into custody on an attempted-murder warrant.

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STOCKTON – A standoff between several police agencies and a suspect they were trying to take into custody on an attempted-murder warrant ended peacefully about 1½ hours after it began Wednesday.

North Wilson Way was closed for about one-quarter mile between Roosevelt and Pinchot streets as a precaution as police, using bullhorns, called on the man to leave a room of the Capri Motel.

The suspect, a 26-year-old man, surrendered around 5:15 p.m. and was taken into custody. He is believed to have been involved in a shooting March 21 in the 1000 block of East Lindsay Street, just went of North Union Street, in which a man was seriously wounded by gunfire.

Witnesses at the time said suspects fled in a newer-model, charcoal gray truck.

On Wednesday, three people had emerged from Rooms 104 and 105 before the suspect came out.

Not only was Stockton Police Department SWAT involved, so are members of the multiagency San Joaquin County Task Force and U.S. Marshals, and automatic weapons were abundant.

No shots were fired in the standoff that began around 3:45 this afternoon.

Read Thursday's Record for more on this story by staff writer Jason Anderson.